September 2019
A Northern Flicker (1 September 2019
Juvenile Broad-winged Hawks? (3 September 2019
From my Archives: Tierra del Fuego National Park (6 September 2019
Central Park (15 September 2019
Central Park and Morningside Heights (21 September 2019
Dragonflies (23 September 2019
Monk Parakeets (28 September 2019

Juvenile Broad-winged Hawks?

3 September 2019

Here are some pictures of a hawk that neither I nor a couple of bird-watching friends can identify for sure. It was a small hawk, smaller than any red-tailed hawk I've ever seen, and the tail feathers don't look right for a red-tail. My guess is that it's a juvenile broad-winged hawk, but it's hard to say for sure. (It was perched in a tree about 8 meter up; while I was watching it, it hopped a couple of times to other trees.)

Broad-winged hawk?

August 31, 2019
1/320, f/6.3, ISO 400, 500.0 mm
August 31, 2019
1/500, f/6.3, ISO 400, 500.0 mm
August 31, 2019
1/200, f/6.3, ISO 400, 500.0 mm